Scarica Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! BACKGROUND Novelist during Victorian Age (1837-1901), so it tackles the difficulties carried by the first industrial revolution, England was the largest empire ever enlisted with colonies spread all over the world. This period is the golden age of the novel that wants to represent the complexity of the modern world, it was also used as a source of entertainment, so they had a moral responsibility. Novels were mainly published in instalments in periodicals or in magazines, they were mainly bildungromances that treated the relationship of the individual to society. Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, on 21 April 1816. is the third of six children: before her were born Mary and Elizabeth, will follow Patrick Branwell, Emily and Anne. In 1824 Charlotte, together with her two older sisters and her younger sister Emily, was enrolled at the Clergy Daughter’s School in Cowan Bridge, the absolutely appalling conditions of the institution (inadequate hygienic conditions) will cause in 1825 the untimely death of the two elder sisters and will ruin forever the health of Charlotte and Emily, this experience will be recalled years later in the famous novel Jane Eyre In 1831 Charlotte was enrolled at Miss Wooler’s school in Roe Head and was given a teaching post. Later, for a few years, Charlotte worked as a governess in wealthy families without ever finding a satisfactory position. In 1842, together with his younger sister Emily, he went to Brussels to study French, where she fell in love with his professor, Constantin Héger, but this feeling was not reciprocated by Héger, and this disappointment was profound and never completely dormant. In 1847 all three sisters published their own: Jane Eyre, immediately accepted and published under the pseudonym Currer Bell. The story is written in autobiographical form, with the protagonist, Jane Eyre, who addresses herself directly to the "reader", thanks to the use of a first-person narrator, which allows us to see events from Jane’s point of view. The style presents accurately descriptive aspects of the environment and characters typical of gothic fiction: such as the disquieting atmosphere of some settings, along with the deepening of the evolution of the protagonist from the emotional, moral and sentimental point of view, in fact, Jane Eyre is considered a bildungsroman where the protagonist is influenced by Charlotte’s childhood experiences. Successfully received at its appearance, despite its contrast with the themes of the time, the novel is still very current. The mad Bertha Mason becomes in this work a sort of alter ego of Jane, representing the passions and the animal side, which in Victorian society had to be repressed and hidden So here we can find the theory of the opposite of W. Blake. PLOT When the novel begins, the title character is a 10-year-old orphan who lives with her uncle’s family; her parents had died of typhus. Other than the nursemaid, the family ostracizes Jane. She is later sent to the austere Lowood Institution, a charity school, where she and the other girls are mistreated; “Lowood,” as the name suggests, is the “low” point in Jane’s young life. In the face of such adversity, however, she gathers strength and confidence. In early adulthood, after several years as a student and then teacher at Lowood, Jane musters the courage to leave. She finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets her dashing and Byronic employer, the wealthy and impetuous Edward Rochester. At Thornfield Jane looks after young Adèle, the daughter of a French dancer who was one of Rochester’s mistresses, and is befriended by the kindly housekeeper Mrs. Alice Fairfax. Jane falls in love with Rochester, though he is expected to marry the snobbish and socially prominent Blanche Ingram. Rochester eventually reciprocates Jane’s feelings and proposes marriage. However, on their wedding day, Jane discovers that Rochester cannot legally marry her, because he already has a wife, Bertha Mason, who has gone mad and is locked away on the third floor because of her violent behaviour; her presence explains the strange noises Jane has heard in the mansion. Believing that he was tricked into that marriage, Rochester feels justified in pursuing his relationship with Jane. He pleads with her
